Diogo Portela

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Diogo Portela
Personal information
Nickname"Braziliant"
Born (1988-06-12) 12 June 1988 (age 34) [1]
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Home town Richmond, London, England
Darts information
Playing darts since2012
Darts25g
Laterality Right-handed
Walk-on music"Mas que Nada" by Sérgio Mendes
Organisation (see split in darts)
BDO 2013–2014
PDC 2015–
WDF 2013–2014, 2022–
Current world ranking 51 New.png (6 October 2022) [2] (WDF)
PDC premier events – best performances
World Ch'ship Last 64: 2018, 2021
UK Open Last 128: 2019
Other tournament wins
PDC Challenge Tour 2018
PDC South American Qualifier 2021, 2022
UK Open Qualifier 2022

Diogo Portela (born 12 June 1988) is a Brazilian professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) and World Darts Federation (WDF) events.

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Career

Originally from Rio de Janeiro, Portela first came into prominence in 2015 when he appeared on the Sky1 darts show One Hundred and Eighty , where with the help of James Wade, he won £16,000.

His first foray into professional darts was when he tried to win a PDC Tour Card in 2017, but while he failed to do so, he did some other firsts, such as becoming the first Brazilian to win a PDC European Tour match when he defeated Martin Schindler in the first round of the German Darts Championship.

In June 2017, he and Alexandre Sattin became the first pair to represent Brazil in the World Cup of Darts in Frankfurt, Germany. They defeated Switzerland 5–4 in a last-leg decider, before losing to the host nation pair of Max Hopp and Martin Schindler, with Portela winning their only leg in the two matches. The following year, he and Bruno Rangel would represent Brazil in the 2018 PDC World Cup of Darts, and after breezing past Denmark in round 1, they would lose to the Scotland pairing of Peter Wright and Gary Anderson.

He would qualify for the 2018 and 2019 PDC World Darts Championships by winning the South American qualifier. In 2018, he lost to the number 2 seed Peter Wright, and in 2019, he lost 3–2 to Ron Meulenkamp after being 2–0 up.

Portela did not get Tour card in any Q-school in 2018, 2019 or 2020 and continued playing mainly on PDC Challenge Tour or some BDO tournaments. Occasionally he appeared in some PDPA Players Championship events. He represented Brazil in the 2019 PDC World Cup of Darts, but lost with his partner, Artur Valle, to Sweden 1-5. In October 2019 he made into the semifinal of Northern Ireland Open. After winning yet another South American qualifier, he secured his sport for the third PDC World Darts Championship in a row. This time he did not win a set and lost in the first round against Josh Payne 0-3.

He qualified for the 2021 World Championship and defeated Steve Beaton 3-0 to advance to the 2nd round for the first time in his career, before losing to Glen Durrant.

World Championship results

PDC

Performance timeline

PDC

Tournament2017201820192020202120222023
PDC World Championship DNP 1R 1R 1R 2R 1R 1R
UK Open DNQ 2R DNQ 1R
Non-major televised events
PDC World Cup of Darts 2R 2R 1R 1R 1R 1R
Performance timeline legend
DNPDid not play in the event#Rlost in the early rounds of the tournament
(RR = Round robin)		QFlost in the quarter-finals
SFlost in the semi-finalsFlost in the finalWwon the tournament

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References

  1. ↑ "Diogo Portela - Mastercaller.com". www.mastercaller.com.
  2. ↑ "WDF Men's Rankings Table". WDF. 6 October 2022. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
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